When you team with Hopkins Fundraising Consulting, you get experienced counsel, personalized service, and a partner you can trust. Working together, we help you achieve your goals. Winning donors for your charitable organization requires more than just a great mission. To succeed, you need a plan and a partner who walks with you step by step on the path to meeting your objectives.
Over $500M
Raised for nonprofits
14
Years in business
Over 200
Clients served
Why Choose Hopkins Fundraising Consulting?
| The Other Guys | Hopkins Fundraising Consulting |
|---|---|
| Often work with one or two types of nonprofits (for example: just churches) | Works with all types of nonprofit organizations |
| High contract fees (and lots of add-on expenses) | Affordable, flat fees (no add-ons, does not take a percentage of money raised) |
| Typically have limited references | Call over 200 past clients to seek a reference |
| Experienced consultants sell the service and younger, inexperienced consultants deliver the service | The owner of the company delivers the service, attends every meeting, answers every phone call and email |
| Juggle large client portfolios thereby limiting face time with individual clients | Limited client load and lots of personalized attention |
| Cookie cutter approaches | Unique approaches tailored to your needs |
| Hit and miss success rates | 95% of clients hit their goals |
Services
Pre-Campaign Feasibility Studies
Feasibility studies are the first critical step in planning for a capital or advancement campaign. Pre-campaign studies help nonprofit organizations gauge donor and community support for a specific capital project, program enhancement, or endowment effort.
Campaign Implementation and Management
Hopkins Fundraising Consulting offers comprehensive management of your organization’s campaign from the initial planning stages to the final ribbon cutting and celebration.
Organizational Assessment & Fundraising Readiness
Preparing for a successful fundraising program is a critical task. Hopkins Fundraising Consulting often partners with nonprofit organizations to assess an organization’s fundraising proficiency and to ready the charity to increase its fundraising effectiveness.
Annual Fund Development Planning
Improving your annual fund will result in more good for your community. We help organizations create a plan that clearly defines your fundraising objectives, develops carefully planned strategies for achieving those goals, engages your leadership in raising money, and results in a more robust base of financial support.
Other Services
- Case for support development
- Training and mentoring of new development staff
- Fundraising training for board members
- Planned giving counsel
- Assistance in the hiring of development staff
Our Clients
Meet Keith
Keith has worked with the nonprofit community for over twenty-seven years. His early career experience included work in higher education and health care where he was employed in teaching, administration, and fund development. He has been a consultant for over twenty years and founded Hopkins Fundraising Consulting in 2007 when he saw a need in the market for more personalized consulting services. His experience has provided him with vast exposure to a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and the funding challenges they face. He has worked with churches, colleges, athletic organizations, libraries, hospitals, social service agencies, faith-based organizations, camps, arts organizations, educational entities, and museums.